I believe every mainstream consumer doing typical tasks should consider the Mac. Its operating system already contains most of the key features promised for Vista. However, the Mac doesn’t really need a buyer’s guide. It has only two consumer desktop models — the gorgeous iMac and the low-end Mac Mini.

I dunno if it’s something about my blog or whatnot, but when I go to ping Technorati (either via posting or manually), Technorati isn’t indexing my site.

There hasn’t been a Technorati user agent in my site logs in a very long time and this blog’s Technorati detail page is not correct.

I’m curious about the situation more than anything else.

Update 4/23/06: I’ve sent Technorati an email about the situation and now the Technorati bot Technoratibot/0.7 is visiting the site again. So now I can be seen on Technorati with my posts tagged, but my “Last Updated” date is still incorrect. I’ll keep an eye on it. It looks as if my blog data is being updated anyway.

Update 4/24/06: Recieved an email from customer support, my account has been reset so now my incoming link count is inaccurate (or just too recent, your pick) but now I’m seeing the technorati bot at least. Ah well, my curiosity is sated.

I’m finally at home after seeing the The Cribs, Franz Ferdinand and Death Cab For Cutie at the Tweeter Center in Camden, NJ.

I can’t really speak for the Cribs (who had the thankless job of opening) or for Franz Ferdinand, who did a great job live, even with their wanktastic group introduction. However, the Death Cab For Cutie part of the show was just awesome. They played mostly from the newest album,
Plans - with the notable exceptions of opening with The New Year and later playing The Sound of Settling from Transatlanticism. Also, We Laugh Indoors from The Photo Album. We sang along to Crooked Teeth, Soul Meets Body, and I Will Follow You Into The Dark (what a couples song). Unlike the sometimes moodiness of Plans, the show was surprisingly upbeat (no Brothers on a Hotel Bed or Someday You Will Be Loved)…and Death Cab left the stage with the mostly female audience wanting more and a promise to see us again in the fall. Hell, I’d follow them around the country if all of their shows weren’t sold out.

Should I just mention that the audience was mostly female–suburban artgirls with plastic rimmed glasses, wearing old navy and their feminist boyfriends?

I feel like the girl at the beauty salon who is in the middle of getting her hair colored and she’s got a smock on with coloring goop and foil in her hair.

Updated WordPress because of the security update and the fact the comment spammers are a little *too* aggressive. I’ve got a few thousand comment spams to moderate for this fancy Akismet system (you don’t see them, but up until now, all of my comments were getting emailed to me for moderation). No wonder why I’m running out of disk space.

The update wasn’t as bad as the last one, all I really need to do is edit the sidebar and create a theme.

I believe over this past weekend, CNN.com unveiled a redesign of their site, changing the two column format for three columns. In addition, some other changes were integrated including many more video offerings and a lighter color scheme with much more use of light gray #CC0000. The main CSS file can be currently found here, and it’s gripping in a Web-design-is-a-passion-kind-of-way read.

I’m not really enthused with the redesign as it doesn’t seem to have enough contrasting colors (I think it’s the light gray background working against the thin fixed size blue and gray fonts). The readability is so poor in that the site is difficult for me to read without manually overriding the font size within my browser. Mind you, I’m online all day at work, and I don’t have a problem with other sites.

Here’s a list of what I don’t like.
-The fact that the left main story image is noticeably *smaller* (306 x 245 on the image I checked) than the hard to ignore ad (336 x280) on the right side. Good gravy, CNN design team, the first impression of the page is that it is unbalanced.
-Like I noted before, the font to background contrast.
-Lightly colored 12px or smaller fixed fonts.
-The horrible make-my-eyes-bleed #fff200 yellow breaking news banner.

Also kinda OT, why does CNN.com seem not to refresh their stories all that often?

I happened to take a look at my blog from a Windows machine running IE 6. Apparently the right hand navigation menu is pushed all the way to the bottom of the page. The stupid thing is that the blog validates 99% of the HTML.

Can anyone confirm the issue with IE 6? From what I know, this blog looks fine in Safari, Firefox on OS X, Firefox on Windows.